Becca
@Beccabiddles
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Director of Conservation | Ecuadorian Amazon Parrot EEP Coordinator | UK Butterfly and Moth Geek 🦋 🦜
Norton-Juxta-Twycross, England
Joined April 2009
Our paper describing the conservation status of Amazona lilacina has just been published! A population decline of 60% in the last 20 years, makes this likely now a Critically Endangered species. https://t.co/yVXJmmX1Wz
@ScienceatCZ @MMUEcolEnv @AmazonaLilacina @CerroBlancoGye
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Just a few days left to apply for our Head of Conservation Education vacancy @twycrosszoo Fantastic oportunity to work with a fabulous team and inspire the next generation of conservationists! 👇🏽 #jobalert 📣 https://t.co/wXXxnGathk
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Great fun chatting with @BeccasButterfli yesterday about conservation @TwycrossZoo for her new podcast. Thank you @SarahButterfli for being such a great team mate in the Wildlife Quiz 👏🏼 will we beat @ChrisGPackham and @lizbonnin ? … we’ll have to wait to find out! 🦋🦍
Recorded another epic episode for my new #Podcast, which will be released early April, with #RebeccaBiddle of @TwycrossZoo & my sister @SarahButterfli. Thank you both for joining me 🎧🎙🐒🦋 #podcastseries #Podcasts #podcasting #zoo #conservation
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Come and join us! This is a really exciting PhD opportunity for anyone interested in insect conservation, conservation genetics, or species reintroductions
📢 NEW PhD opportunity: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth This exciting project aims to protect existing populations of the Kentish Glory (Endromis versicolora) and to reintroduce it into England. Full details 👇 https://t.co/EqgPaDh0bP 📷: Dave Green
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And now we’ve all been sent to a hotel that has no rooms….. disgraceful. Queuing here for an hour to be told there is no where for us @emirates @EmiratesSupport @Emirates247 What a joke
Absolute chaos @emirates at Birmingham airport. 400 people waiting and no form of communication or plan….. we’ve been here for six hours!
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Absolute chaos @emirates at Birmingham airport. 400 people waiting and no form of communication or plan….. we’ve been here for six hours!
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First time doing @Southseaparkrun and absolutely bloody loved it! (Mainly due to the lack of hills …. Not the pouring rain) Congrats to the @parkrunUK team tor the 500th one here! 👏🏼🙂
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Species 58!! The stunning high brown fritillary - one of our most endangered butterflies, at Heddon Valley @NorthDevonNT @BCDevon 😲 It’s emotional - my final GB species to see. Thanks for the inspiration @patrick_barkham and the incredible ongoing protection @savebutterflies
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Pretty good haul this morning inc two hawk moth species and my new favourite the burnished brass 🤩 #mothsmatter @savebutterflies @ButterfliesEM @BC_WestMids
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Butterfly species 57!!!! 🥰 5h drive and a fairly steep walk, to find the gorgeous mountain ringlet on Saturday. Glorious views. ~30 individuals by Greathall Gill, Irton Fell. @BC_Cumbria @savebutterflies @Simon_Tolly
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Butterfly species 56 out of 59! 😃 After many attempts trying at @savebutterflies Fineshade wood, took the trip up to Scotland to find the Chequered Skipper, in the Scottish rainforest @RSPBScotland Glenborrodale @ASRainforest Stunning place 🤩
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Not a bad view for this mornings meetings…. Joined by chiff chaffs, wrens, cetti’s warbler, gold crests and my first black cap of the year!! 👏🏼 @TwycrossZoo @stu_y
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🚨JOB ALERT!🚨 We are advertising three new lectureships on our £8.3 million E3 'Sharing Space for Nature' initiative. 2 Lecturers in Conservation Science - https://t.co/4vsDmrOUmh 1 Lecturer in Marine Conservation - https://t.co/QpScYWP4qF Deadline to apply is 6th May
jobs.kent.ac.uk
The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) is seeking to appoint an ambitious and highly motivated lecturer. This is a fixed term vacancy for 48 months and it is our intention to make...
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Today, we have mainly eaten our way around Chester… 😃🤤 #shrub @StoryhouseLive #PastryPedaleur What a treat. And I get to do it all again tomorrow with @Raisinmeister 😄
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Still none for us yet…… 😬😬
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Exciting day for you @naomilfrost !! Looking forward to the many interesting discussions and investigations to come….. you’re going to fantastic, an asset to @TwycrossZoo 🥳
Day 1 @wlv_uni for our new PhD student, Naomi Frost! Naomi will work on developing a methodology for best practice in zoo animal welfare assessment, with supervision by @VaglioStefano, Colin Dubreuil, @Beccabiddles & Lisa Clifforde, and funding by @WLVsci_eng & @TwycrossZoo 😀
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